The Scientific Method & Methods for Science
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What is the scientific method? Where are its limitations?
How can we do science? What methods are there to do this efficiently?
It includes anything from philosophy of science, to organization and collaboration methods, but may also include note-taking, writing, information storage…
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What is the scientific method? Where are its limitations?
How can we do science? What methods are there to do this efficiently?
It includes anything from philosophy of science, to organization and collaboration methods, but may also include note-taking, writing, information storage…
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Sense About ScienceSense About Science is an independent charitable trust. We respond to the misrepresentation of science and scientific evidence on issues that matter to society, from scares about plastic bottles, fluoride and the MMR vaccine to controversies about genetic modification, stem cell research and ...
John Goodwin
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Scientists self-censor after political attack : Nature NewsScientists whose work came under scrutiny during a political debate about work funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, censored their own later work, a new study has found. In July 2003, former congressman Patrick Toomey (Republican, Pennsylvania) argued that ...
Calvin Smith
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NotemakingAcademic success requires various competencies, among them the ability to know and use a variety of tools and techniques to generate and organize information and ideas. I refer to the tools and techniques on this page as "notemaking" because "taking notes" is passive: just as we must make ...
Carlos G
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PLoS Medicine - Why Current Publication Practices May Distort ScienceThe current system of publication in biomedical research provides a distorted view of the reality of scientific data that are generated in the laboratory and clinic. This system can be studied by applying principles from the field of economics. The “winner's curse,” a more general statement of ...
Calvin Smith
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The Economist Has No Clothes - Scientific AmericanThe 19th-century creators of neoclassical economics—the theory that now serves as the basis for coordinating activities in the global market system—are credited with transforming their field into a scientific discipline. But what is not widely known is that these now legendary economists—William ...
Giorgio Bertini
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The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method ObsoleteHighly disputed article: will statistics and empirics succeed the scientific method? (Or are they all just different facets of the same thing?)dekaysion added 18 months ago
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How delicious is changing the academic researchA not so short article about how a fellow historian uses delicious. She uses it, not only for her own thesis research, but also for teaching. New collaboration and discussions have been started through delicious as well. Interesting read with many good ideas.dekaysion added 18 months ago
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Statistics for Experimenters | TwineAnother twine that concerns itself with statistics for scientists, especially looking at experimental data.dekaysion added 18 months ago
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